Stereotypes on Terrorists

Terrorists are defined as persons who are mostly members of groups that support or perform terrorist acts upon other individuals or populations, because of a difference in opinion. Today Terrorism is conducted in a wide display of illegal political and religious organization in order to further goals of forcing their own religious or political views on others. Terrorists come from basically anywhere, a terrorist is simply an individual or group of persons who terrorize another person or association.In our Modern day society there is the stereo type that all terrorist are arab men, which is not neccaserilly true. Terrorist’s are often young men who are beginning to discover themselves and where they come from, and the majority of terrorists we see today come from a place that is a victim to the nation they are terrorizing; and so they are motivated to avenge or liberate their country and it’s people. Stereotypes are insulting to those they are directed towards, and this stereotype of terrorists and men of arab origin is rude and inappropriate even though we may have good reason to believe it’s true; and it also may be playing into the hands of the real terrorist’s.

There is currently a stereotype in our society which causes us to classify arab and muslim men as terrorist. Though not many people are arrogant enough to repeat John Cooksey’s racist remark after 9/11 attacks that “If I see someone come in and he's got a diaper on his head and a fan belt around that diaper on his head, that guy needs to be pulled over and checked," the vast number of north American’s do still have a stereotype in mind when we imagine terrorists and that is a man of arab descent. Stereotypes are there for a reason, after all both of the people responsible for the previous Boston bombing’s were arab, so is the former most wanted man Osama Bin Laden, and all 16 men who were part of the 9/11 attacks were arab.

Even though it is understandable to suspicious of arab men for being